Parksons Packaging installs India’s first Kongsberg V cutting table

Esko India recently added the Kongsberg platform to its portfolio with the V series launched officially in May this year. A Kongsberg V20 has been installed at the Parksons Packaging plant in Chakan, western India.

Parksons is a long-time user of Esko software including ArtiosCAD for the structural design of folding cartons. It was also the first Indian packaging converter to install a Kongsberg XL series sample maker when it was launched in 2001. Further, it recently joined as an overseas member of the European Carton Makers Association (ECMA).

Parksons chairman Ramesh Kejriwal said: ‘The Esko pre-press system with ArtiosCAD software helped us in building our packaging design facility into an innovation centre called Design Park. ‘The Kongsberg V20 can handle materials of sizes up to 1,750 x 1,650mm. Its flexibility means that we can cut rubber blankets that are needed for the spot varnishing of folding cartons but we can also cut flexographic plates for mounting on our new multi-color flexo printer slotter. Our familiarity with the use of multiple Esko sample makers at our several plant locations made it a natural progression to the Kongsberg V20 when we were contemplating sample making for the corrugation business.’

Srihari Rao, Esko’s director of sales for India, added: ‘We highly value our long relationship with Parksons Packaging. As this company continues with expansion and diversification to new locations and new segments, it can count on us at Esko as trusted partners. We’ll help Parksons Packaging to leverage its human resource and investment in our prepress and workflow technology’.

Pictured: Srihari Rao (left), Esko’s director of sales for India, with Parksons Packaging chairman Ramesh Kejriwal